Apparatus for purifying and aging liquors



(No Model.)

0. HEINTZ. APPARATUS FOR PURIFYING AND AGING LIQUORS. No. 482,843.Patented Sept. 20, 189.2.

l/"z'ne sees. /Mz Inventm UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHRISTIAN HEINTZ, or BUFFALO, NEW YORK.

APPARATUS FOR PURIFYING AND AGING LIQUORS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 482,843, datedSeptember 20, 1892.

Application filed June 7, 1892- Serlal No. 435,797. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHRISTIAN HEINTZ, a citizen of the United States,residing at Buffalo, in the county of Erie and State of New York, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Apparatus for Aging andPurifying Liquors, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to apparatus for purifying and aging liquors andwill be fully and clearly hereinafter described and claimed, referencebeing had, to the accompanying drawing, in which is shown a suitableapparatus for carrying out my invention.

My invention consists inproviding an apparat-us in which the spirits,liquors, orliquids to be operated upon may be subjected to a high degreeof heat, great pressure, and rapid circulation in a coil or a series ofcoils or pipes located in a stove, furnace, or other suitable device orapparatus for heating the coils or pipes, whereby the liquors or liquidsabove mentioned move upward from the heated coils or pipes to itshighest point, gradually losing temperature as it passes away from itsheating apparatus, and then descends to the lowest point in the seriesof coils or pipes, and from thence to the heating device or apparatus,where it receives a fresh supply of heat and again moves upward, therebykeeping up a constant and rapid circulation from the hot to the coolerand from the cooler to the hot points of the apparatus.

In the said drawing I have shown a convenient and suitable apparatus forcarrying out my invention.

A represents the lower floor of the building, and B the upper floor. Onthe lower floor is located the heating device. I have shown a suitablestove 1; but any other apparatus for heating may be used, eitheroperated by gas or other heating material coal or wood, for instance. Inthis heating device is represented a series of coils 2 and 3. The coils,it will be noticed, are divided in this instance to leave room for thedoor 4:. From the upper coils is a vertical pipe 5, which passes upabove the highest series of pipes 6, which are connected by a T 7 withthe upper pipe on of the upper series, the pipes being connected in theusual way by return-bends. The lower pipe I) of this upper series ofpipes is now connected with the upper pipe 0 of the lower series 8 by avertical pipe 9, which series passes down and connects with the lowerpipe d. In this pipe cl is a small cock 10, and at the end of the pipe(1 is an elbow 11, connected with a vertical pipe 12, which passes up tothe filling-vessel 13. This filling-vessel is provided with a funnel 14and stop-cocks 15, 16, and 17. The vertical pipe 5 is also provided witha liquid-vessel 18 at the top andwith a safety-valve 19, a water orliquid gage 20, and a stop-cock 21, all constructed in the well-knownway. The farther end of the pipe at is provided with any suitablewellknown thermometer 22 to show the degree at that point. At the lowerend of the pipe 12 the end of the lower coil in the heating. de-

vice is connected by a T 23, and between the T 23 and the elbow 11 isanair-cock 24 and a stop-cock 25 above it. When filling the apparatus, thecocks and the safetyvalve are opened in any well-known way, and thecocks 16,17, and 24 are also opened, the cock 24 being left open toallow the air to pass out while the liquid is passing in, which it isallowed to do until the liquid starts out from the cock 24:, when thecook 25 is immediately opened to allow the liquids to come together fromthe pipes at and 12. The cock 24 is then at once closed. Cock 15 is thenopened and left open until the liquid is high enough to run out throughit. This indicates that everything is full. Then the cooks are allclosed and the fire started. After twelve hours, more or less, the fireis allowed to cool, and when sufficiently cool the liquid material isdrawn ofi through the cook 10 and is found to become equal to agedliquor in every respect, and at the same time purified and clearedwithout any loss of proof and with little or no shrinkage in bulk.

I claim as my invention- In an apparatus for aging and purifyingliquors, the combination of a substantially continuous verticallyarranged pipe a portion of which is formed into a coil, a stovesurrounding the coiled portion of the pipe, a vertical filling-pipecommunicating with said pipe at the lower end of the coil outside of thestove, a. filling vessel at the top of the ver tical pipe provided withsuitable cocks, and three cocks in the continuous pipe below the coil,two of which are liquid and air outlets, respectively, and the other onea stop-cock, the stop-cock being located between the airoutlet and theunion between the vertical pipe and lower end of the coil, and athermometer and a safety-valve connected with the continuous pipe,substantially as set forth.

CHRISTIAN HEINTZ. Witnesses:

JAMES SANGSTER, J. M. CALDWELL.

